Great to speak earlier at @StrongerIn event on importance of young people voting in the #EUref Use your voice! pic.twitter.com/SqjYKhPvTx

— Elaine Bagshaw (@esbagshaw) May 28, 2016

The young Liberal Democrat who has led such a strong effort in East London, Elaine Bagshaw, today urged young people to register to vote so that they could make sure Britain stays in the European Union. Speaking at a Stronger In event in London, she said:

We have nothing to gain from leaving Europe. We have everything to lose. We’ll have a privilege that we have enjoyed and benefitted from taken away from us and the generations that will follow us.

If you don’t want that snatched away, you need to speak up and use your voice.

If you haven’t already, register to vote here. Here’s her speech in full:

Voting in this referendum is incredibly important because this time every vote counts. Whether you’re in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh or Liverpool. Whether you’re 19 or 90. Your votes are equal. Your vote and your voice is powerful and it matters.
It’s so important to have your say because this vote really matters. We won’t get another crack at this in 5 years like a general election. This is it.

I’m really passionate about opportunity. About everyone having the chance to succeed regardless of where you’re born, the colour of your skin, who you love and anything else that makes you, you.

Staying in Europe gives us so many opportunities. To live and work in other countries, experience different cultures, to live alongside people from Europe and to learn about them and ourselves.

If we vote to leave, we lose all of that. Those opportunities that you and I have now, and that our younger relatives, friends and siblings have will be quickly and cruelly snatched away.

We have nothing to gain from leaving Europe. We have everything to lose. We’ll have a privilege that we have enjoyed and benefitted from taken away from us and the generations that will follow us.

If you don’t want that snatched away, you need to speak up and use your voice.

Get registered by 7th June – make sure if you’re a student that you’re registered in the place you’ll be! So register at home if that’s when you are, or get a postal vote.

Turn up on the 23rd June to use your vote and have your say. And let’s stay stronger in Europe.

Oh, and some other guy spoke at the same event. He was pretty good, too.

.@Ed_Miliband says that the result of the referendum could be in the hands of younger voters: pic.twitter.com/eG53b7pMJd

— Stronger In (@StrongerIn) May 28, 2016